503 Banquet for nobles (3)
As soon as I gave them permission, the nobles didn't hold back at all as they went forward to talk to the elves and dwarves.
But they also had their image to think about, so no one ran.
Instead, all of them just walked as fast as they could.
When I saw this, it really reminded me of a certain event that I had gone to back on Earth…
It was an event where people sold doujinshis that they created, a place for people to share their ideas and creativity with one another.
It was also a place where people's desires gathered, so there were many people that came to buy these things.
But there was a rule in that convention center where people were not allowed to run, so to make up for that, they all walked as fast as they could without running.
This was just like that place where the nobles were the ones that wanted to buy the goods and the elves and dwarves were the ones selling the goods…No, it was better to say that the elves and dwarves were the goods.
The nobles surrounded them in an instant, but they didn't push each other to get to the elves and dwarves.
They knew that doing this would be a bad show of manners and would scare the elves off, so they naturally wouldn't do something like this.
They would act dignified as the nobles they were…
It was just too bad that they didn't know that this was what the elves and dwarves hated the most.
They hated this kind of stuffy and stiff kind of talking that made them feel suppressed.
So they didn't respond well to this.
The only reason that they even bothered to talk to these nobles was because of me.
I had asked them to do this for me as a form of distraction for the nobles.
Or rather, I wanted to use them to distract Viscount Teomold.
Though it seemed that even Viscount Henry who was supposed to be my other distraction was also affected by this. I could see him also among the nobles, trying his best to talk to the dwarves and elves.
Though with his personality, he seemed to be doing better than the other nobles as he hit it off with one of the dwarves.
Still, for him to be distracted like this instead of going to distract Viscount Teomold, was this shooting myself in the foot?
Well, it didn't really matter as long as Viscount Teomold was distracted.
He didn't seem to care at all as he used his position to suppress the other nobles and make his way to the front of the crowd.
His personality was the opposite of Viscount Henry's, so he was the type that the elves and dwarves hated the most.
At the same time, he didn't hide the lewd look in his eyes as he looked at the elves.
I never thought that he was that kind of person, but I guess that he didn't dare have these thoughts in front of Rose and Haley since they were with me. But with these elves, he didn't hold back his desires at all.
But the strange thing was…if he cared about this so much, why did he take that normal looking woman as his wife?
He even had two children with her…
It had to be a status or a money thing, or else it just didn't make sense at all.
Still, the fact that he did this made the elves look at him in disdain.
So he wasn't able to get close to them at all.
The only response he received to any of his words were very simple, as if they were perfunctory answers.
But to this deluded man, he thought that he was building a good relationship with the elves.
If it wasn't for me asking the elves for this favour, they wouldn't have talked to this man at all.
With these deluded thoughts of his, Viscount Teomold began imagining all the things that he would be able to do if he got close with the elves. There was even a part of him that thought about what it would be like to go to bed with an elf.
There wasn't a single part of him that suspected that this was a trap.
While they were all busy with this, Rose and Haley came over to find me.
When they came over, I asked, "Is everything prepared?"
They both nodded in response before Rose said, "It's all ready, we're just waiting for you."
I gave a nod back before turning to look at the nobles talking to the elves and dwarves.
The way that I was looking at them, it was as if I was making sure that the ones that I wanted to see were all here.
That was because other than Viscount Teomold, there were others that had colluded with him on this matter.
If I wanted to take care of all of this, I wanted to make sure that I caught them all in a single net so that none of them escaped.
As I looked at them, I couldn't help knitting my brows.
That was because there was one of Viscount Teomold's followers that was missing.
I couldn't help feeling worried when I saw this.
Could it be that he was smarter than I gave him credit for and he had sent that follower to take care of some things?
Could it be that he was also preparing just in case this was a trap?
I turned to Rose and said, "Tell everyone to wait, we might need to…"
Before I could finish, the doors opened and that last follower came in.
When he did, he came over to me with an awkward look and said, "Count Zwein, I'm sorry for being late. My carriage's wheel broke on the way here and it took a while to repair it."
As I looked at this person, my lips couldn't help twitching.
Behind me, I could hear Rose and Haley holding back their laughter… The Burger King is terrifying as a mask.
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